William Howard
Home Town: Paris, KY
General Orders No. 108, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to William Howard, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Charpentry, France, October 3, 1918. With a rescue party of three other men, Private Howard went four hundred yards in advance of our lines to rescue a wounded soldier who had lain in an exposed place before an enemy machine-gun post for five days. The mission was successfully performed in broad daylight under a sweeping fire from enemy machine guns.
